Multifractality in human heartbeat dynamics

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6735, 1999, Pages 461-465

  Ivanov, Plamen Ch ^a,b   Nunes Amaral, Luís A ^a,b   Goldberger, Ary L ^b   Havlin, Shlomo ^c   Rosenblum, Michael G ^d   Struzik, Zbigniew R ^e   Stanley, H Eugene ^a  

^a Boston University ^*  (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM;

NASA DISCIPLINE CARDIOPULMONARY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ADULT; AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HEART; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION;

EID: 0344327144     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/20924     Document Type: Article

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